Meaning of shortsome | Babel Free

Definitions

Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) (of time) amusing; enjoyable

Scotland, UK, dialectal

Examples

“[…] and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time "unco shortsome."”

“There's seven maries in your bower, / There's seven o them and three, / And I'll send them to good greenwood, / For flowers to shortsome thee.”

“'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.”

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